Design & New Product Development

Design and New Product Development is a multidisciplinary research group. Working across all the schools of design within the Faculty, it embraces Product, Furniture and Interior Design; Fashion, Contour Fashion and Footwear; Design Crafts, and Social Dimensions of Design.

The group was formed to perform pioneering research – empirical, theoretical, collaborative and practical – in both established and emerging domains. Special research interests include:

Additive manufacturing in design

Design for industry

Medical products and devices

Innovations in packaging

User informed design

Retail, consumers and technologies

Resource-efficient design

Historical, cultural and future issues in design

Oxford Instruments collaboration

Interview with Lynn Shepherd from Oxford Instruments.

For the OI group, we undertook design research into a three-dimensional corporate identity, as well as how to apply it across a variety of material finishes. For the group’s Finnish subsidiary, we researched hand-held devices for field analysis by dispersive X-ray fluorescence.